Homemade Hand Cream Recipes

Commercial hand creams can be expensive and contain a variety of unpronounceable chemical ingredients. You can use natural ingredients and make your own hand cream. This page contains homemade hand cream recipes.

I don't like petroleum on my skin, either. Remember, anything you put on your skin, gets absorbed into your body. Crisco is also hydrogenated, which does damage to cell structure. Stick to vegetable oils that don't rot easily.

I cup of dollar store basic lotion 2 tablespoons of glycerine, one table spoon of almond oil. One small container of dollar store retinol face cream or night time moisturizer whip it up in a bowl with a wire whisk and put in jars you can add fragrance and soap safe dye for color easy to make just as nice as store bought expensive creams.

A very inexpensive hand cream can be made with this recipe. I never buy any other kind anymore since I have made this. All items can be bought at the $1 store. Mix together with electric mixer, the following.

1 - 15 oz. bottle baby lotion

1 - 8 oz. jar of petroleum jelly

2 - 8 oz. jars of vitamin E cream

Fill clear jars, These make wonderful gifts! I make it for all my friends and they love it!

I have made this lotion and it is nasty. It's beyond greasy, it's heavy feeling on the skin. A complete waste of time and money. I threw the whole batch in the trash. As vague as this recipe is I don't think I would make it again w/o more exact amounts

The recipe I've used for years is very satisfactory, and is not greasy at all. It has a very clean and pleasant fragrance in spite of the fact that the only real fragrance it contains is that of Johnson & Johnson's baby lotion.

I use 4 ounces of Vaseline, 8 oz of J&J's pink baby lotion and a 4 oz jar of Vitamin E cream that I buy at Walmart. I also have used the Walmart's brand (Equate) of baby lotion that is probably bottled by the same company making it for J&J. I don't know that, but I can tell no difference in it at all. It is a lot more economical as well.

I place all 3 ingredients in a large enough plastic bowl, so that I have plenty of room for mixing with my hand mixer. I mix it very well until it's entirely emulsified, light and fluffy, then using a flat blade spatula, scoop the cream into perfectly clean cosmetic jars with lids. Since I share my hand cream with family and friends who also enjoy it as much as I do. I seldom have any left over, but if and when I do, it's always kept in the refrigerator.

I only use 4 ounce jars (or smaller) and use it on feet and ankles, hands, arms and elbows. Knees benefit from a good cream rubbed into them after baths too. Moisture or cleansing creams should always be placed on warm, wet skin ...never dry skin. You want the pores to be open when you add a softening cream so that it goes into the skin. Then if you like, you can gently wipe off any excess although I just keep rubbing it in. This way the cream actually gets into the pores and is able to do the softening that you're wanting to accomplish.

If you want to make a larger batch at the time, just stick to the formula, and double or triple the amounts. I wash and reuse all the jars from the Vitamin E cream (which incidentally is very reasonably priced at Walmart) as well as any other small cosmetic jars that family and friends save for me. In a pinch, one could use the small baby food jars which have the nice lids. They're just about the right size. However, anytime you place creams

or lotions in an opaque container, they maintain freshness a lot longer and are more apt to turn rancid due to light penetration of a clear container.

We all love the fragrance of sweet-clean babies, and the baby lotion lends the cream that same soft and gentle fragrance.

I use the same formula; only put the vaseline in the microwave for a bit to partially melt it. It blends with the baby lotion and vitamin e cream better that way. I love this stuff and so do all my friends and family

@ninny123 I use 1-4oz. tube of creamy vaseline, 1 oz. bottle of any baby lotion & 1-4oz. jar of vitamin E cream. Not at all greasy. The scent will be determined by the scent of the baby lotion. The scent only lingers a very short time.I don't need a mixer. I use a large bowl & a large spoon. I purchase all ingredients at either Dollar General or Dollar Tree for $1 each.

This is the original recipe I copied years ago. I have made it many many times, however I only make a half batch because it makes so much. I don't find the exact brands called for, but adapt accordingly. The last time I even poured a Tbsp of Vit E oil in that I happened to have. I mix with my mixer till it is very creamy. I then store it in the Vaseline and Vit. E jars - which by now I have quite a supply of. Before that I bought some small plastic storage containers.

My doctor approves of this very much because it has no alcohol in it to dry the skin, so it does nothing but moisturize my very dry skin.

Note: In the recipe they comment about 10 minutes of stickiness, but I really never had that problem. Admittedly, it is oilier than most lotions, but it can be rubbed in.

You can make your own special hand cream by just getting unscented lotion and adding a few drops of your own essential oils, such as lavender, etc. to the lotion. Unscented lotions sometimes are cheaper than scented.

This homemade hand cream (or body cream, whichever you prefer) is so much better than any other hand cream you can buy. It is so easy and so inexpensive to make too. I go to Dollar General and buy everything I need to make it. Recipe follows:

2-4oz. jars Vitamin E cream

1-8oz. jar Vaseline

1-16 oz. bottle baby lotion

Mix with electric mixer till smooth and store in jars with lids.

Note: If you think the smell of the baby lotion is too strong, you might be able to find unscented lotion.

Source: My source is from a friend.

By Elaine from Belle Plaine, IA

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Homemade Cheap and Easy Hand Cream

Do not store in a metal container. Be sure to reuse the containers or use glass/plastic. (01/31/2008)

Homemade Cheap and Easy Hand Cream

Use unscented lotion and add the essential oil of your choice. (02/01/2008)

Homemade Cheap and Easy Hand Cream

Some people object to mineral oil (even though it seems to be in every commercial skin cream), because it dissolves important vitamins and hormones, and then your body excretes them.

Instead of baby oil, which is just scented mineral oil, you can use any cooking oil: soybean, canola, corn, olive, etc. I've made hand cream with cooking oil and it turned out fine. I liked the fact that it was inexpensive, unscented and had no polysyllabic chemicals in it. (02/01/2008)